Gladys Reyes posted a lot of Mara Clara throwback pics on her Instagram account. She also told PEP about her intense catfight scenes with Judy Ann Santos during their Mara Clara days.

Want to see how Judy Ann Santos and Gladys Reyes looked like during their Mara Clara days?

Just recently, the original cast members of the phenomenal series Mara Clara had their reunion, which took place last June 25. The reunion was organized by Mara and Clara themselves, Judy Ann and Gladys.

After the reunion, Gladys posted on her Instagram account some old photos from their 1992-1997 TV series.

Eventually, Judy Ann and Gladys’s bruises paid off. From being an afternoon series, Mara Clara was became a primetime show in 1996, going head-to-head against the Mexican series MariMar aired on RPN-9.

The TV series also had a movie version in the same year, as a tribute to the death of one of its cast members, Eruel Tongco.

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Mara Clara poster, courtesy of Star Cinema

In 2010, ABS-CBN aired a remake of Mara Clara with Kathryn Bernardo and Julia Montes taking the roles of Mara and Clara, respectively. The Kapamiilya network dubbed the original soap as the “Ina ng Pinoy Soap Opera.”